Temptation

GENESIS 3:1-7

1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden;3 “but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.'”4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.5 “For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

DEUTERONOMY 8:11-19

11 “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,12 “lest– when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;13 “and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;14 “when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;15 “who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;16 “who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end–17 “then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’18 “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.19 “Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

DEUTERONOMY 13:1-4

1 “If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,2 “and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods’– which you have not known–‘ and let us serve them,’3 “you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.4 “You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.

PSALM 66:10

10 …You, O God, have tested us; you have refined us as silver is refined.

PSALM 119:165

165 Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble.

PROVERBS 1:10-15

10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait to shed blood; let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down to the Pit;13 We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, we shall fill our houses with spoil;14 Cast in your lot among us, let us all have one purse”–15 My son, do not walk in the way with them, keep your foot from their path;

PROVERBS 2:10-22

10 When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,11 Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you,12 To deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things,13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;14 Who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked;15 Whose ways are crooked, and who are devious in their paths;16 To deliver you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words,17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead;19 None who go to her return, nor do they regain the paths of life–20 So you may walk in the way of goodness, and keep to the paths of righteousness.21 For the upright will dwell in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;22 But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.

PROVERBS 4:14-27

14 Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil.15 Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn away from it and pass on.16 For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; and their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.18 But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.19 The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.20 My son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.21 Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart;22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.25 Let your eyes look straight ahead, and your eyelids look right before you.26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.27 Do not turn to the right or the left; remove your foot from evil.

PROVERBS 6:27-35

27 Can a man take fire to his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?28 Can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be seared?29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.30 People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is starving.31 Yet when he is found, he must restore sevenfold; he may have to give up all the substance of his house.32 Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does so destroys his own soul.33 Wounds and dishonor he will get, and his reproach will not be wiped away.34 For jealousy is a husband’s fury; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.35 He will accept no recompense, nor will he be appeased though you give many gifts.

PROVERBS 9:13-18

13 A foolish woman is clamorous; she is simple, and knows nothing.14 For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat by the highest places of the city,15 To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their way:16 “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here”; and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,17 “Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”18 But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of hell.

ECCLESIASTES 7:25, 29

25 I applied my heart to know, to search and seek out wisdom and the reason of things, to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.29 Truly, this only I have found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”

ISAIAH 33:15-16

15 He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil:16 He will dwell on high; his place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; bread will be given him, his water will be sure.

JEREMIAH 2:21-25

21 …I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality. How then have you turned before Me into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before Me,” says the Lord GOD.23 “How can you say, ‘I am not polluted, I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley; know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,24 A wild donkey used to the wilderness, that sniffs at the wind in her desire; in her time of mating, who can turn her away? All those who seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they will find her.25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘There is no hope. No! For I have loved aliens, and after them I will go.’

MATTHEW 18:7-8

7 “Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!8 “If your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the everlasting fire.

LUKE 4:1-15

1 …Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, …was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,2 being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.3 And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”4 But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'”5 Then the devil, taking Him up on a high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.6 And the devil said to Him, “All this authority I will give You, and their glory; for this has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I wish.7 “Therefore, if You will worship before me, all will be Yours.”8 And Jesus answered and said to him, “Get behind Me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.'”9 Then he brought Him to Jerusalem, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here.10 “For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over You, to keep You,’11 “and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”12 And Jesus answered and said to him, “It has been said, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.'”13 Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region.15 And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

MARK 14:32-38

32 Then they came to a place which was named Gethsemane; and He said to His disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”33 And He took Peter, James, and John with Him, and He began to be troubled and deeply distressed.34 Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch.”35 He went a little farther, and fell on the ground, and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass from Him.36 And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.”37 Then He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour?38 “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

LUKE 11:33-36

33 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light.34 “The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.35 “Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.36 “If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light.”

1 CORINTHIANS 10:12-13

12 …let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

GALATIANS 1:6-9

6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.

GALATIANS 6:1-3, 7-8

1 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.

2 PETER 2:4-9

4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)–9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

1 CHRONICLES 29:17

17 “I know…, my God, that You test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness…

JAMES 1:12-22

12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.18 Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

2 THESSALONIANS 3:1-4

1 …brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you,2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith.3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.4 And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, both that you do and will do the things we command you.

HEBREWS 2:18

18 For in that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.

HEBREWS 4:13-16

13 …there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

JAMES 1:20-22

20 …the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

1 JOHN 2:16-17

16 For all that is in the world– the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life– is not of the Father but is of the world.17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

1 JOHN 4:1, 4

1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Revelation 3:10-12

10 “Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.11 “Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.12 “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name.